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Land titles (title-deed) are the legally recognized instrument which guarantees property rights over land . However, land titles are not wide-spread in Benin‘s rural areas, as the procedures to obtains them are complex, very time-consuming and thus expensive.

The Government of Benin has then decided in 1992 to introduce the Rural Land Plan (Plan foncier rural) as a tool to provide secured access to land in rural area .

The instrument has been tested from 1992 to 1998 in different agro-ecological zones of the country

In 2000, the approach of Plan Foncier Rural has been adopted as central tool of the new rural land law which was in preparation.